Hammer: The Funky Headhunter (1994)

Hammer doing gangsta rap? What’s next, Ozzy Osbourne doing gospel? The Village People doing the blues? Barney doing grunge? It’s true Hammer manages to achieve some credibility on a few of the 16 tracks found on his fourth album, “The Funky Headhunter.” But those cuts succeed more on production savvy than on Hammer’s trivial, mundane rapping.